The whole pistol brace thing is just a way to get around the stupid law against short barreled rifles. Let’s just rid of this law and resolve the whole thing.
The Left will never stop.......................
Yes and no. Mostly yes.
Grant Shaw and Alex Bosco (the S&B in SB Tactical) invented the first "pistol brace" for a friend who is a Vietnam vet and his service-connected disabilities left him unable to "present' a handgun in the normal fashion. So they ginned up a contraption that allowed him to present and fire more or less like a 'normal' person would.
https://www.sb-tactical.com/
Like anybody who makes devices like these, SB Tactical sent an example to the ATF to get their take on its legality. ATF's original opinion was that it's an accessory and accessories don't/can't transform a handgun into an SBR. Then they changed that and said if you fire the weapon with the brace mounted to your shoulder, that makes the handgun an SBR. Then they crawfished and said they don't dictate how devices are used, their rulings are entirely based on configuration and function.
Then they did Dementia Joe's executive fiat, which was a clear violation of 5 U.S. Code § 553, the Administrative Procedures Act (as was Trump45's fiat directing ATF to ban the bump-fire stock). and gave brace owners opportunity to "Form-1" their brace-equipped pistols into SBRs at no cost.
And now the question is on its way to SCOTUS. In the current atmosphere I don't see this surviving SCOTUS review.
And if that comes to pass, the people who get the bulk of the credit should be the ones who bought those thousands of braces intending from the outset to tempt fate use them as shoulder stocks.
That and in some states to let you hunt with a rifle during "pistol season". But yeah, get rid of the NFA and let people have SBRs and suppressors without ridiculous registration and licencing.